BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
30802
30803

Written on top of telegram in Edith Russell's hand is the note: "Ans by Ralph from London. 9/12/63 'cannot accede to request letter follows Russell'".

30804

Waring saw BR on 30 Oct. 1961 as he passed her shop on Walton Street in Kensington.

30805
30806

Forwarded to BR at Waring's request.

30807

Re Mary Waring.
 

30808
30809
30810

On the verso of Warne's letter.

30811
30812

"I am much interested in the proposed discussion on 8th November and in the endeavour to form a new party to be known as 'The Progressives', especially as its main platform is to be precisely the platform that I wish Great Britain to adopt."

30813
30814
30815
30816

On the verso of Warner's letter. Re death and grief. BR will send "A Free Man's Worship".

30817
30818
30819
30820
30821
30822
30823
30824
30825

Re: race vs. nationality vs. religion according to BR.

30826
30827

On the verso of Warrens' letter.

30828

Letter is to the editor of the New Republic, 26 Aug. 1963.

30829

Divorce advice.

30830
30831
30832
30833

A transcription of a letter from Lord John contained in a letter from H. Waterworth to BR dated 9 Oct. 1958, record 30832.

30834

Waterworth thanks BR for his willingness to decipher Lord John's hand. Typescript is titled "Beauty".

30835
30836
30837
30838
30839
30840
30841
30842
30843

On the verso of Watson's letter.

30844
30845
30846
30847
30848
30849
30850
30851
30852
30853
30854
30855

Ms. is titled "Life and Death"; letter to the editor, n.d.; a newsclip is also enclosed.

30856
30857

"On page 503 of International Relations, October 1963, in your article on 'Summits and Summitry Reconsidered', you speak of 'Lord Russell's ill-considered intervention' in the Cuban Crisis. I shall be grateful if you will explain to me why it was 'ill-considered'."

30858
30859
30860
30861
30862
30863

"My correspondence with [Joseph] Conrad is both hidden midst hoards of private papers and earmarked for my autobiography. I am sorry to disappoint you."

30864

Poems are titled "Climax to an Occupation" and "Casus Belli".

30865
30866

"I think it is important that all of us who are engaged in anti-nuclear work should keep before our minds the hopeful possibilities no less than those that are terrifying."

30867
30868
30869
30870
30871
30872
30873
30874
30875
30876
30877

At the foot of Weddle's letter.

30878
30879
30880
30881
30882
30883

Letter is mistakenly addressed to Mrs. S. Weeks.

30884
30885
30886
30887

Webster asks for BR's support for the Barnes Foundation.

30888

BR refuses request to support the Barnes Foundation.

30889

Originally filed in J's.

30890
30891

"It is a novel idea to give a peace prize to a nation and not to an individual. I shall be interested to see how it works out."

30892
30893

"The reason that he did not reply to the leader in The Guardian was that he was, at the time of its appearance and for some weeks thereafter, very ill and did not recover until it was too late to reply effectively."

30894
30895

Letter is signed for Weidner by H. Pickles. Ts. is titled "Recommendations towards a Peaceful (Non-Violent, Non-Political) Solution of the German Question."

30896
30897

Letter is signed for Weidner by H. Pickles.

30898

Pickles signed the letter for H. Weidner to which BR is responding. "I am afraid that I cannot follow your argument that the ND badge is a death symbol. It was invented by a member of our movement as the badge for the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, for the first Aldermaston march. It was designed from the naval code of semaphore, and the symbol represents the code letters for ND." Re CND symbol. (Peace Symbol.)

30899

Weigle objects to BR's article in New York Times Magazine, 16 Dec. 1952, for its "misconception of the role played by books in the educational program of St. John's College, popularly known as the 'Great Books' College."

Weigle is the College president. BR's reply is in RA1 750.

30900
30901